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authorShlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:36:54 +0000 (13:36 +0300)
committerShlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:00:36 +0000 (14:00 +0300)
fortune-mod/datfiles/wisdom

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@@ -1664,3 +1664,17 @@ Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos,
 because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
     -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
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+"What surprises you most about mankind?"
+
+God answered:
+
+"That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long
+to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose
+their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the
+future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present
+nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if
+they had never lived."
+    -- Jim Brown, published by Reata Strickland as
+    An Interview with God ISBN 0743229576. (Variation of it was misattributed
+    to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama )
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